Community's Creative Quilts To Be Showcased This Weekend

Sally Carroll McDonald County Press Bunker Hills Quilter Sam Alps, left, and President DeeDee Lewis show off Alps’ quilt that will be one of several on display at the club’s community quilt show this weekend at the Pineville Community Center. Alps created the T-shirt quilt for Epsilon Sigma Alpha. The creation will be auctioned off this summer at the ESA International Convention.
Sally Carroll McDonald County Press Bunker Hills Quilter Sam Alps, left, and President DeeDee Lewis show off Alps’ quilt that will be one of several on display at the club’s community quilt show this weekend at the Pineville Community Center. Alps created the T-shirt quilt for Epsilon Sigma Alpha. The creation will be auctioned off this summer at the ESA International Convention.

A variety of recently created quilts will be on display at the Bunker Hill Quilters community quilt show on Saturday, May 20, and Sunday, May 21, at the Pineville Community Center.

The show is an annual event, but is the first to be held at the center.

Bunker Hills Quilters contact neighbors to share their recent quilt creations and 50 to 60 quilts will be showcased, said Bunker Hills Quilters President DeeDee Lewis.

The show also will feature a country store where the quilters sell items they have created, "Keeping You In Stitches," which is a quilt shop owner from Jay, Okla., who sells fabric, a silent auction and chances for a handmade cedar chest.

Concessions will be sold as well.

The quilters meet each week for a potluck and a working session. They create items to sell in the country store each year. They also have a singing get-together on the first Saturday of the month. To raise funds, the quilters host a "Lunch on the Square" on the last Monday of the month.

At Christmas, the quilters create stockings and fill them with goodies to distribute to shut-ins, widows and widowers.

"We make things all year," Lewis said.

Hours are 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. on Saturday, May 20, and from noon to 4 p.m. on Sunday, May 21.

Admission to the show, which is open to the public, is by donation.

General News on 05/18/2017